Cisco FutureLine provides low cost entry to full Cisco Unified Communications

Posted by Chris on December 17th, 2010

There are more and more options for acquiring a hosted Cisco voice and unified communications ( UC )  solution but Cisco FutureLine is one of the most viable for SMB’s to start with. The SMB is able to start with a very low cost, but flexible and upgradeable Cisco Futureline Hosted Voice/VoiP solution and then add to this as and when required.

The whole point of the Cisco FutureLine solution is that the SMB does not have to do all the thinking ( about the future and the requirements ) up front. A system can be acquired that meets most of the obvious telephony requirements and can then be upgraded in a seamless and inexpensive way as more features and facilities come to mind or are experienced during the course of business.

FutureLine maintains a regular dialogue with it’s partners and clients to ascertain if additional features or facilities are required.

Some clients may require full unified communications at the outset but this is typically not the case.

Contact Cisco FutureLine here

http://www.futureline.net.uk/

Cisco FutureLine Hosted voice proves popular at Cisco CBSW

Posted by Chris on December 16th, 2010

The Cisco FutureLine Hosted Voice solution proved popular at the Cisco Small Business Workshop held at the Heritage Motor Museum on Tuesday.

FutureLine ( http://www.futureline.net.uk/ ) appears to be a timely addition to the Cisco portfolio addressing quite neatly the lower end of the SMB market. A Cisco spokesperson said :

“We are seeing an increasing demand for managed and hosted solutions in the voice space and this is especially the case for smaller businesses with less than 20 employees. FutureLine have a refreshingly new approach by addressing the key fundamentals of quality, security and ease of use and deployment. This is all underpinned by partnering with Cisco who fully understand how to manage different media provided by the various consumption models.”

Andy Brocklehurst
RSM Cisco Small Busines

Supplied via existing and new Cisco resellers FutureLine enables them to provide customers with a low cost voice solution that grows and changes as the SMB grows and changes without there being any costly re-investments in voice infrastructure.

Previously Cisco small SMB prospects would have only been offered a UC500 based premises solution which was often too costly for the smaller customer.

Globally, solutions that combine Cisco end points with a Hosted Voice platform have been extremely popular.


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